Émile Faguet (December 17, 1847 - 1916) was a French writer and critic. December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... A critic (derived from the ancient Greek word krites meaning a judge) is a person who offers a value judgement or an interpretation. ...

He was born at La Roche sur Yon, and educated at the normal school in Paris. After teaching for some time in La Rochelle and Bordeaux, he returned to Paris to act as assistant professor of poetry in the university. He became professor in 1897. He was elected to the Académie française in 1900, and received the ribbon of the Legion of Honour in the next year. The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The entrance to the old La Rochelle harbour, with the two 14th century towers. ... City motto: Lilia sola regunt lunam undas castra leonem. ... The Académie française, or French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. ... 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ... French Legion of Honor The Légion dhonneur (in Legion of Honor (AmE) or Legion of Honour (ComE)) is an Order of Chivalry awarded by the President of France. ...

He acted as dramatic critic to the Soleil; from 1892 he was literary critic to the Revue bleue; and in 1896 took the place of Jules Lemaître on the Journal des débats. François Elie Jules Lemaître ( April 27, 1853 - August 4, 1914), was a French critic and dramatist. ...

Among his works are monographs on Gustave Flaubert (1899), André Chénier (1902), Emile Zola (1903); an admirably concise Histoire de la littérature française depuis le XVII' siècle jusqu'a nos jours; series of literary studies on the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries; Questions politiques (1899); Propos littéraires (3 series, 1902-1905); Le Libéralisme (1902); and L'Anticléricalisme (1906); Vie de Rousseau (1911); Petite histoire de la littérature française (1913) Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) is counted among the greatest Western novelists. ... André Chénier André Chénier (October 30, 1762 - July 25, 1794) was a French poet, associated with the events of the French Revolution. ... mile Zola (April 2, 1840 - September 29, 1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France. ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a Franco-Swiss philosopher, writer, political theorist, and self-taught composer of The Age of Enlightenment. ...

See Alphonse Séché, Émile Faguet (1904).

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• This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.